I know this has
been out for a long time, but I only recently watched the movie as it
was playing on HBO. I've seen a few M. Night Shayalaman movies (or M.
Night Sham a lama Ding Dong, as my hubby and I call him) Sorry about
that, dude. :-)
Anyway - the movie was quite suitably creepy enough and kept my attention through the whole thing (even though I had a bad night of joint pain) as I hoped for some sort of resolution. Spoiler alert:
There
really wasn't much resolution and the move kind of just ended and left
you hanging. That's the point I guess - a natural event that no one
can explain. Life is just like that. But it was pretty disturbing.
The
most disturbing thing about the movie is that there is so much
people-killing-themselves-gore that the viewer gets immune to it very
quickly. Its like a tradgedy where you have to become immune to the
pathos or you would go crazy. It was weird to see that behavior in
myself because I am usually the person to turn off a gorey or "icky"
violent movie. I am too sensitive. The way the deaths are portrayed
in The Happening somehow simutaneously toned them down and
sensationalized them at the same time. Good job being disturbing.
